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Bucs' Class A affiliate combines for 24 K's in game

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By Tom Singer
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MILWAUKEE -- Even in this year of the whiff in the Majors, there was plenty of opportunity on Thursday night to focus the spotlight on West Virginia, the Pirates' Class A affiliate in the South Atlantic League.

The Power came up with 24 reasons: one for each strikeout its four pitchers combined for in a 12-inning, 3-2 victory over Lakewood. The team total was the second-highest in the league's history, going back to 1960.

The first five innings and first 12 strikeouts belonged to Tyler Glasnow, a 19-year-old right-hander from Southern California who tops the SAL with his .122 opponents' batting average.

"He's a young man finding his way, learning and continuing to develop," Hurdle said of the 6-foot-7 righty, the Pirates' fifth-round pick in the 2011 First-Year Player Draft. "We like him. He's one of the many on the pitching side who has gotten out of the blocks very clean."

Glasnow is a product of Hart High School, the alma mater of, among others, the Royals' James Shields, Indians prospect Trevor Bauer and Pirates icon Bob Walk.

Tom Singer is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog Change for a Nickel. He can also be found on Twitter @Tom_Singer. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.